Strategic Designated Safeguarding Lead

At Phoenix Primary School, we are developing a more collaborative and coordinated approach to safeguarding, inclusion, attendance and family support, ensuring that our systems and ways of working enable us to identify needs early and provide the right support at the right time.

The Strategic Designated Safeguarding Lead will play an important role in shaping and supporting this approach, providing strategic oversight of safeguarding across the school and helping to ensure that our culture, policies, practices and systems remain effective, consistent and responsive to the needs of our children and families.

The postholder will take a lead in overseeing safeguarding information and data for our most vulnerable pupils, using insights from CPOMS alongside attendance, achievement, behaviour, inclusion, mental health and wellbeing information to help identify emerging concerns, understand barriers and inform appropriate support. This will include recognising and responding to challenges such as emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA), working collaboratively with colleagues to help children feel safe, supported and ready to learn.

In return we offer:

A comprehensive induction programme.

Growing well-being team with Mental Health Lead supporting children and staff

A Healthy Work-Life Balance and a committed SLT

A happy and caring community.

Care First employee assistance programme

Non-contributory membership of Benenden private health care cover

Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme

Two-week, half-term break in October

Cycle to work scheme

For further details on this role and to apply please visit the school’s careers page Our Vacancies | Phoenix Primary School

Visits to the school are strongly encouraged. For further information and to arrange a school visit, please contact Jo Penn on 01634 829009 or via email (email address on the original advert)

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date where interest and applications received are high, therefore we encourage early applications

Safeguarding Commitment

Beyond Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in a regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory "Disclosing and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check".

Equality & Inclusivity Statement

At Beyond Schools Trust we strive to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented communities, including but not limited to those who identify as Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background.